Comments on: Building Your Resiliency: Part V – Recognizing and Utilizing Your Signature Strengthshttp://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/03/16/building-your-resiliency-part-v-recognizing-and-utilizing-your-signature-strengths/
Men's Interests and LifestyleTue, 18 Aug 2015 11:47:00 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1By: Anthoneyhttp://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/03/16/building-your-resiliency-part-v-recognizing-and-utilizing-your-signature-strengths/comment-page-1/#comment-473503
Fri, 08 Nov 2013 14:49:22 +0000http://artofmanliness.com/?p=9420#comment-473503Much of this is truly inside of us. We just need a push or guide in the right direction. The great ones dont stop growing and always seem to be on the journey to find the true selves, and our place in this world!
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Mon, 24 Dec 2012 21:24:00 +0000http://artofmanliness.com/?p=9420#comment-305036@Brett, Kate

This is a really great series of articles so far, it’s just about exactly what I needed to read lately too.

Thank you! You’re inspirations!

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Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:28:21 +0000http://artofmanliness.com/?p=9420#comment-97803Why do I feel like the author of this post has now read too much postmodernism. It is just screaming out of every sentence.
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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:03:21 +0000http://artofmanliness.com/?p=9420#comment-97550Hey guys, another GREAT tool out there in the same arena is the book at small test called StrengthsQuest. This is more a professional survey of your strengths, but naturally is informs who you are as a person. In reading the results of this, I really felt it hit home with it’s descriptions of my 5 main strengths. Here is a link:http://www.amazon.com/StrengthsQuest-Discover-Develop-Strengths-Academics/dp/0972263705

Everyone in my office has taken this test and we all agree that it is pretty astounding what it say about you. Using the information is another thing entirely, but it’s nice to basically get clinically diagnosed positively and leave with 5, count ’em 5 area where you excel.

Another good source, of course, of which the ancients probably would have said to build your “resiliency”, if they had use this word, is to acknowledge the fundamental “offices”, or “dutys”, in a mans life.

The best source for this is Cicero “On duty”, which has been the gentlemans handbook in europe for many centuries, from the renaissance to the age of enlightment. I would even dare to say (being not alone in this) that this book was the most influential in shaping the codex of the gentleman.

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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:11:28 +0000http://artofmanliness.com/?p=9420#comment-97531Do not miss the ancient philosophers on this topic! As I am reading your series about resiliency, I often discover sentences that could be quotes from the stoics or epicureans as well.

What is called “resiliency” here is something Seneca and Epicurus where all about.
Try Seneca “On Providence”, first book, which is about the role of adversity in shaping your character.
(“[…] the assaults of adversity do not weaken the spirit of a brave man. It always maintains its poise, and it gives its own colour to everything that happens; for it is mightier than all external things. And yet I do not mean to say that the brave man is insensible to these, but that he overcomes them, and being in all else unmoved and calm rises to meet whatever assails him. All his adversities he counts mere training. Who, moreover, if he is a man and intent upon the right, is not eager for reasonable toil and ready for duties accompanied by danger? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?”)

And Pierre Gassendi third book of his Syntagma, “Concerning Hapiness”, which is in my opinion the best summary of the moral philosophy of Epicurus.
(“[…] it is necessary to readily endure the labors of acquiring virtue, as they must be followed by marvelous pleasure and comfort. […] “When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the sensual or the debauched kind, which terminate in the very moment of enjoyment […].)

Those philosophers urged the youth of their age to aquire those facculties which they termed “virtues” to archieve a state of “peace of mind”, which is not so much like the mediative state of mind which we might associate with the term “peace of mind” according to the eastern philosophies , but rather like a strong backbone, that allows us to lead a good [and manly] life, or rather, is the essence of “the good life” itself.

This should allow you in every stage, in every disaster of your life to stand fast an say “Uror, sed invictus.”(Seneca) and “Si fractus illabatur orbis impavidum ferient ruinae.” (Horacius).

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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:00:55 +0000http://artofmanliness.com/?p=9420#comment-97528Nice post. Personal, inner strength was a battle to create and maintain. At first I took comfort in a fake self-concept while I pieced together my own, which I may or may not have completed by now – I’ve lost track of what I constructed for comfort and what I’m constructing for real.

I really like your part on positive psychology, very interesting. I didn’t do the questionnaire but I’ve bookmarked it for later.

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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:36:01 +0000http://artofmanliness.com/?p=9420#comment-97512One negative thing I believe I have to point out, though, is that all of the questions related to leadership seemed to view leadership in the context of making everybody feel connected, happy, and “in”, which I don’t think is a complete picture of what leadership is. An effective leader has to make a cohesive team AND get the job done at the end of the day.
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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:35:38 +0000http://artofmanliness.com/?p=9420#comment-97511Thanks for the excellent article, Brett. It’s really helpful.
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